Jason Kline
Head Coach

Two-time NAIA Division I Independent Coach of the Year Jason Kline enters his third season as the head men’s basketball coach at Park University.

In two seasons, Kline has compiled an overall mark of 35-29, including a 25-win season in 2006-07 that marked one of the best single-season turnarounds in NAIA Men’s Basketball History.

Kline’s 2006-07 Pirates went 25-7 and advanced to the school’s third NAIA Men’s Basketball Tournament in school history, ending the run in the NAIA Sweet 16 with a loss to Azusa Pacific, 91-88, after beating Olivet Nazarene in the first round 68-62.

Along the way, Park won seven games against opponents that either spent time in the NAIA Men’s Basketball Top 25 or moved on to play in either the NAIA Division I or Division II National Tournament.

In addition to the wins over NAIA post-season and ranked opponents, the Pirates also notched wins over NCAA Division I UMKC and NCAA Division II Rockhurst during the 2006-07 campaign.

Kline’s second-season at the helm of the Park men’s basketball squad ended with three Academic All-Americans and two NAIA All-Americans.

The Pirates were ranked throughout the 2006-07 season, spending the latter part of the year in the Top 10, reaching as high as No. 6 late in the season before finishing the year at No. 9 in the poll.         

In his first season with the Pirates, Kline was named NAIA Division I Independent Region Coach of the Year as his team advanced to the semifinals of the Division I Independent Region Tournament.  The Pirates finished the year with a 10-22 record.

Kline came to Park after seven successful seasons at Indiana Tech University in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he led the Warriors to a 140-84 record during his tenure. In 2004-05, he guided Indiana Tech to a school record 29 wins (eight losses) and the school’s second straight NAIA Division II National Tournament appearance, advancing to the Elite Eight.

Over his last three seasons at Indiana Tech, Kline’s teams averaged over 26 wins per year. In each of the last four seasons, his teams finished the regular season in the top 35 of the final NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball ratings, including a ranking of eighth in 2003-04 and 15th in 2004-05. Academically, Kline’s players had a graduation rate of 91.4 percent at ITU.

Kline, who was named the WHAC (Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference) Coach of the Year in 2003-04, led Indiana Tech to a regular season conference title in 2003-04 and to the WHAC Tournament Championship in 2004-05.

Individually, Kline’s players have accumulated a multitude of honors. A dozen student-athletes have been named NAIA All-America Scholar Athletes under Kline, while 11 have earned athletic All-America honors. Thirty-seven players have been tabbed Academic All-Conference honorees, along with 20 All-Conference performers.

Kline, who has an overall coaching record of 175-113 over nine seasons, started his coaching career as an assistant at Indiana Tech from 1993-95, where he earned his undergraduate degree in business administration in 1994.

Kline then spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Kansas Wesleyan University, in Salina, Kan., which is where he completed his M.B.A. in 1998.

Kline and his wife, Jolina, a former Kansas Wesleyan Women’s Basketball Player, have two sons, Jacob and Jackson.

Antowin Edwards
Assistant Coach

Antowin Edwards enters his sixth season as an assistant coach for the men’s basketball program at Park University.

A four-year letterwinner for the Pirates from 1992-96, Edwards works at Park Hill High School as a peer mediator and also serves as an assistant coach for the boy’s basketball team. A native of Austin, Texas, Edwards earned his bachelor’s degree from Park in 1997.







Gordon Stubblefield
Assistant Coach

Gordon Stubblefield begins his third season as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Park University.

Stubblefield played one season under current Park Head Coach Jason Kline at Indiana Tech University in 1998-99, earning All-America honors.

A 1999 graduate of Indiana Tech with a bachelor’s degree in business management, Stubblefield currently works for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependants.